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Damaged Motherboard or New Battery Needed?

  • 07-01-2010 9:08pm
    #1
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey all, my laptop (HP 550) was working fine up until recently when I noticed that my "battery icon" wasn't filling up. I moved the cursor over the icon and it states "plugged in, not charging." I've been trying to contact HP tech support but annoyingly the s/n and p/n on the back of the laptop isn't readable anymore. Apparently they don't want your correspondence by e-mail unless you have this information. Anyway I digress, I'll probably call them tomorrow.

    When I took the charger out of the laptop to see what was wrong, the computer just shut down abrubtly. Everytime I plug it in I get a bright blue light, then a blueish grey light and then nothing (i.e no orange flash to show that it's charging).

    For the past few days the battery icon stated that there was 33% left in the battery, but now it's slowly going down, it's at 31% now. Is that an indicator that it's the battery that's screwed and not the motherboard? Please tell me that's true, because I know that if the motherboard is damaged then I'm fairly ****ed.

    I've only had the laptop a year btw. Hope I gave enough information!


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Sounds like the battery is dead. It does sound to be a bit premature after only a year but it's not unheard of.


  • #3
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Sounds like the battery is dead. It does sound to be a bit premature after only a year but it's not unheard of.

    Phew. TBH I wouldn't be surprised if it's dead because I made the mistake of playing games like Football Manager on it. A HP 550 can't handle that, and I knew it too, you just make the mistake of thinking a laptop is impervious to this kind of thing.


  • #4
    BumbleB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭BumbleB


    LZ5by5 wrote: »
    For the past few days the battery icon stated that there was 33% left in the battery, but now it's slowly going down, it's at 31% now. Is that an indicator that it's the battery that's screwed and not the motherboard? Please tell me that's true, because I know that if the motherboard is damaged then I'm fairly ****ed.

    I've only had the laptop a year btw. Hope I gave enough information!


    motherboard problems manifest in other ways.The problem with batteries is that when you first get them you must charge them up for a long time then after that you let them go completely dead and charge them up fully again once every few cycles . If you charge a battery up to only 60% every time the battery develops a "memory " which means its thinks its full at 60% and thats where the problem lies. also laptop batteries only have a 300 cycle life usually .


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